Running-gear for vehicles.



No. 669,521; Patented Mar. l2, l90l.

' E. GORDON.

R UNNING GEAR FDR VEHICLES.

. (Application filed July 18, 1900.) (N o M o d a I) TATES ATEN FFIC.

RUNNING-GEAR FOR VEHICLES.

SPIJGIFIOATION forming part Of Letters Patent N0. 669,521, dated March 12, 1901. Application filed July 13,1900. Serial No. 23,469. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, EDWARD GORDON, a citizen of the United States of America, residing at Uniontown, in the county of Fayette and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Running- Gear-for Vehicles, of which the following is a specification, reference being bad therein to the accompanying drawings.

This invention relates to certain new and useful improvements in running-gears for vehicles, and more particularly to runninggears constructed of pressed steel.

The invention aims to construct a runninggear of pressed-steel bars bent in a U-shaped manner and having removably connected to the front and rear bolsters axles for the Wheels, and by such construction unusual strength and longevity are obtained for the runninggear.

A further object of the invention is to construct a running-gear of pressed-steel bars which shall be extremely simple in construction, strong, durable, efficient in its use, and comparatively inexpensive to manufacture.

With the above and other objects in view the invention finally consists in the novel combination and arrangement of parts to be hereinafter more fully described, and specifically pointed out in the claims.

In describing the invention in detail reference is had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification,and wherein like numerals of reference indicate corresponding parts throughout the several views, in which- Figure 1 is a top plan View of my improved running-gear for vehicles. Fig. 2 is a crosssectional View taken on the line 2 2 of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a front elevation of my improved running-gear. Fig. 4 is a perspective view of the fifth-wheel. Fig. 5 is a perspective view of the end of each of the bolsters, in which is re movably secured a spindle formed integral with the axle. Fig. 6 is a perspective view of the end of the reach. Fig. '7is a like view ofthe end of the rear hound. Fig. Sis a sectional view taken on the line 8 8 of Fig. 1.

In the accompanying drawings, 1 indicates the front axle, which has connected thereto by the king-bolt 2 the reach 3, the latter having its rear end flanged outwardly at right angles, as at 4, with these flanges secured to the rear axle 6 by bolts or rivets 5. A pair of bounds 7 and 8 are provided with flanged ends 9 and 10, and these flanged ends are secured to the reach about midway thereof and to the rear axle by bolts or rivets 11. Secured upon the front axle 1 in any desirable manner is the lower fifth-wheel plate 12, upon which the upper fifth-wheel plate 13 operates. This fifth-wheel plate 13 carries the headblock or bolster 14.

The front axle 1 and rear axle 6 are provided at their ends with downwardly-extending flanges 15 16, having apertures 18 to receive bolts or rivets by means of which the flanges are drawn together for securing the shank 19 of the axle-spindle 30 within the ends of the axles. These axle-spindles 20 each carry a collar or annular flange 21, which abuts against the ends of the axles. A strapbrace 22 is connected to the underneath face of the reach 3 at its forward end and receives the king-bolt 2 when thelatter is in position.

The axles 1 6, the reach 3, the hounds 7 8, and the head-block or bolster 14c are each constructed of pressed steel which is bent in substantially U shape in cross-section, the ends of the axles having the shanks of the axlespindles removably secured therein. The fifth-wheel plates 12 and 13 are each stamped from a pressed-steel plate, with the lower plate 13 secured to the front axle in any desired manner.

By the construction heretofore set forth of running-gear increased strength, as well as longevity, is obtained, and it is thought the many advantages of my improved construction can be readily understood from the foregoing description, taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, and it will be noted that various changes may be made in the details of construction without departing from the general spirit of my invention.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. In a running gear for vehicles, the

pressed-steel front and rear axles substantially U shape in cross-section and provided at each end with integral flanges for securing the axle-spindles to the axles, substantially as described.

2. In a running-gear for vehicles, the pressed-steel axles substantially U shape in cross-section and provided on their underneath face at the ends thereof with downwardly-extending flanges for securing the axle-spindles to said axles, and a reach com- I prising a substantially U -shaped bar of 'plate, the lower plate being rigidly secured to the front axle, substantially as described.

4. The pressed-steel axles which are substantially U shape in cross-section and have integral flanges on their lower faces at the ends thereof, the pressed-steel reach substantially U shape in cross-section with its rear end flanged and rigidly secured to the rear axle, the pressed-steel hounds substantially i U shape in cross-section and rigidly connected to the rear axle and reach, and the pressedsteel fifth-wheel comprising a rigid and movable plate the rigid plate being secured to the front axle substantially as described.

5. The pressed-steel axles substantially U shape in cross-section with integral flanges on their lower faces at the ends thereof, the pressed-steel reach substantially U shape in cross-section with its rear end flanged and rigidly secured to the rear axle, the substantially U shape pressed-steel hounds having flanged ends rigidly secured to the reach and rear axle, the pressed-steel fifth-wheel and the U shape pressed-steel head-block or bolster substantially as described.

6. In a running-gear for vehicles, a reach composed of a pressed-steel bar which is substantially U shape in cross-section and has its rear end flanged for securing to the rear axle, substantially as described.

7. In a running-gear for vehicles, a fifth- 2 wheel composed of pressed steel and comprising two plates the lower of which is rigid-with the front axle and the upper of which is movable on the lower plate, and a pressed-steel ghead-block or bolster which is substantially U shape in cross-section carried by the upper plate of the fifth-wheel, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

EDWARD GORDON.

Witnesses:

THEOPHILUS BOWIE, L. T. HAYDEN. 

